Here and Now: Letters (2008-2011) (26 page)

The world keeps throwing up its surprises. We keep learning.

Yours fraternally,

John

ALSO BY PAUL AUSTER

The Invention of Solitude

The New York Trilogy

In the Country of Last Things

Moon Palace

The Music of Chance

Leviathan

Mr. Vertigo

Smoke & Blue in the Face

Hand to Mouth

Lulu on the Bridge

Timbuktu

The Book of Illusions

Collected Poems

The Red Notebook

Oracle Night

Collected Prose

The Brooklyn Follies

Travels in the Scriptorium

The Inner Life of Martin Frost

Man in the Dark

Invisible

Sunset Park

Winter Journal

ALSO BY J. M. COETZEE

Dusklands

In the Heart of the Country

Waiting for the Barbarians

Life & Times of Michael K

Foe

White Writing

Age of Iron

Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews

The Master of Petersburg

Giving Offense

Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life

The Lives of Animals

Disgrace

Stranger Shores: Essays 1986–1999

Youth

Elizabeth Costello

Slow Man

Inner Workings

Diary of a Bad Year

Summertime

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e-mail to Siri Hustvedt (Auster’s wife)

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e-mail to Siri Hustvedt

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A letter that went astray and didn’t reach Auster, which accounts for his failure to answer it.

*
Ernst Pawel,
The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka
(New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1984).

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From the
Dictionary of English Slang.